Would That I Might

Not that poem, this one instead I know, I could write that, but you expect it, I guess, or I expect it, maybe is what I mean.  I mean I thought of it and it is an idea I would have, I did have, but this is something else, I think, is not what I expected from myself, is what I did when I said "no" to what I expected. It may have been a bad idea, considering it, but it was worth  taking that risk.

I am feeling extremely tired tonight.  The past week or so, my bacck has been hurting, and it has been quite hard to get to sleep, so even though I am often sleep deprived, this seems a bit more than is typicaal for me.  At least I was able to get my work finished before it gets much later.

More has happened than that You only know some of it and if I tried to tell the rest you would dismiss it, too, despite you knowing I should be trusted, that it is established. There are other factors: that is what you would say.

I've been wanting to put together a manuscript for a full length collection of poetry for a while now, and I certainly have the work to do it, but the real issue is in terms of actually crafting a book.  It's important to me that it not just be a bunch of poems thrown together into a single volume but that it work as a cohesive piece.  I know that I was able to accomplish that in Blaze without Burning , so I know that I can do it, but until recently, I have sort of been struggling with how to approach it.  In the past few days, though, I started to get an idea about what I want to center the book around and what I am hoping to be able to write about in it.  There are some pretty big themes swirling in my head at the moment, and I am going to need to write a bunch of new poems that will serve as a sort of center for things, but I believe that much of what I am hoping to explore is already reflected in my poems, it is just that I am now more conscious of cultivating th...

Society Some people want to argue it started because one guy was big and mean and he wanted other people to do things for him,  and being a big, mean guy, he kind of made sure that happened, and organized everybody he could into some kind of service, and that is how it started out, at least according to some folks, but even if that was how it began, we have to know the point is different now, that we are  not doing this for the same reasons, that it has to be for everybody to be better, for the benefit of all of us as a group and as individuals as well.

I've had some exciting news about Blaze without Burning recently.  The final galleys have been turned over to the printer, so now it is just a matter of waiting until it is an actual book in the world.  I am told there may be a slight delay in the arrival of copies, but the book is at the printers now, I believe.  In addition, I finalized an agreement to have an e-book edition as well, which I think is pretty exciting.  At the moment, I am mainly just waiting for things to pop off.  I should probably be appreciating the calm and quiet for now, but the anticipation makes that a bit difficult.